{"id":3071,"date":"2013-10-31T09:50:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T14:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"In an interview with Gabe Lyons, Christian author Margaret Feinberg reflects on the question, \"Are Christians too sheltered?\" She answers, yes, Christians have often propagated a \"fortress mentality,\" building defenses around our churches and homes to kee"},"modified":"2013-11-05T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T20:19:18","slug":"are-christians-too-sheltered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/2013\/10\/31\/are-christians-too-sheltered\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Christians Too Sheltered?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Gabe Lyons, Christian author Margaret Feinberg reflects on the question, &#8220;Are Christians too sheltered?&#8221; She answers, yes, Christians have often propagated a &#8220;fortress mentality,&#8221; building defenses around our churches and homes to keep culture out and keep ourselves pure. The result is often isolation and irrelevance.<\/p>\n<p>Feinberg&#8217;s commentary relates to the call Dr. Johnson&#8217;s call to the missional life. If God is a God who often works through unexpected people at the margins of power, then the church should resist the temptation to bunker down behind the fortress walls and instead go to the margins. There, we will find God in the stranger. To hide behind the walls, therefore, might be to hide ourselves from God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qideas.org\/blog\/are-christians-too-sheltered.aspx#commentStart\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3072 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/files\/2013\/10\/feinberg-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"feinberg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/files\/2013\/10\/feinberg-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/files\/2013\/10\/feinberg-326x490.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Read the interview with Margaret Feinberg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qideas.org\/blog\/are-christians-too-sheltered.aspx#commentStart\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>, and then reflect on some of the questions below.<\/p>\n<h3>Discussion Questions:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">Where have you seen the &#8220;fortress mentality&#8221; in your experience with Christianity?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Feinberg says that the fortress mentality is often rooted in a desire &#8220;to stay pure.&#8221; If we use purity language to describe our interactions with secular culture, then the rules of purity psychology may come into play. Remember back to Dr. Beck&#8217;s opening Spotlight session and reflect on how purity psychology may influence our interaction with secular culture.<\/li>\n<li>What suggestions does Feinberg offer for overcoming the fortress mentality? Do you have other suggestions?<\/li>\n<li>What are the risks of abandoning the fortress mentality?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Special thanks to Janine Morgan for pointing us to this interview with Margaret Feinberg)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Gabe Lyons, Christian author Margaret Feinberg reflects on the question, &#8220;Are Christians too sheltered?&#8221; She answers, yes, Christians have often propagated a &#8220;fortress mentality,&#8221; building defenses around our churches and homes to keep culture out and keep ourselves pure. The result is often isolation and irrelevance. Feinberg&#8217;s commentary relates to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3T2tB-Nx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3084,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}